Yes to Mobile Homes for Puna - Short & Long Term

[jrw]

Southern states have mobile homes and prefab homes every where those states get a lot more hurricane then new do. Weather wise the temps and humidity is a lot worse thier then here. Does not make sense why Hawaii does not allow.

jrw

[jrw]

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Originally posted by jrw

Southern states have mobile homes and prefab homes every where those states get a lot more hurricane then we do. Weather wise the temps and humidity is a lot worse thier then here. Does not make sense why Hawaii does not allow.

jrw

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[Tink]

I am curious as to where this "no manufactured home" law is, as I recall that there is a rather good sized residential neighborhood in the Port Allen area of Kauai, just uphill from the harbor on both sides of highway. Most manufactured homes are already set up for fire sprinklers, but Code has an exemption for "alternate water supply" where your cachment tanks total I believe 2500 gallons, or a pool they can pump from.
The next problem is allocating land for a new illegal subdivision with a reasonable infrastructure.

Community begins with Aloha

[alaskyn66]

FWIW i lived in a mobile home in Alaska 20x70 that was NOT anchored down. it managed to survive the yearly winter winds 80 to 100 mph. search valdez winds alaska. you will get it. plus a 4 ft dump of snow overnight.

so anyone that is telling you mobile homes wont survive here is full off crap.

[Kapoho Joe]

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Originally posted by kalakoa

I had read previously that only high-cube containers could be permitted.

Without digging through HCC, I can only guess that there's a ceiling height requirement -- I've seen this in other jurisdictions, where the square footage calculation only includes interior portions of the house with ceilings higher than 7'6", lower ceilings are "allowable" but can't be used as "living space".

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There is a shipping container home that is permitted. Four, forty foot ones stacked to make a two story square.

[glassnumbers]

what about yurts? Yurts can have plumbing, electrical, a kitchen, everything you need, and they cost only a fraction of a house.

Aloha

[DanielP]

Biggest problem with mobile homes is the steel frames. They don't last long in salty air, let alone acidic air. Yurts sound good

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

what about yurts?

How do they hold up in wind? Iselle?

Portion of Hawaii’s drinking water that comes from underground wells : 9/10
Gallons of raw sewage that leak into the ground from Hawaii cesspools each day : 53,000,000 - Harper's Index

[terracore]

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Originally posted by glassnumbers

what about yurts? Yurts can have plumbing, electrical, a kitchen, everything you need, and they cost only a fraction of a house.

Aloha

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Ask the local yurt dealer who lives in a stick-built house.

[kalakoa]

"alternate water supply" where your cachment tanks total I believe 2500 gallons

Have heard that the insurance companies require 10000 gallons.

next problem is allocating land for a new illegal subdivision with a reasonable infrastructure

It will be necessary to utilize some of the many lots "created before 1976" due to new (which is to say, actual enforcement of existing) rules about roads and water.